56, EXMOUTH MARKET
56, EXMOUTH MARKET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195589
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 56, EXMOUTH MARKET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, EXMOUTH MARKET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195589
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 56, EXMOUTH MARKET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, EXMOUTH MARKET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 56, EXMOUTH MARKET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31318 82494
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3182SW EXMOUTH MARKET 635-1/73/386 (South side) No.56
II
Terraced house with shop. c.1820-1830; C19 shopfront with C20 alterations. Multi-coloured stock brick set in Flemish bond, wooden shopfront; roof obscured by parapet, left party-wall brick stack. Shop plan to ground-floor; side-hall entrance plan with staircase to upper domestic floors. Four storeys; 2-window range. Shop with angled shop entrance to right set in deep recess and house entrance, also in recess, further to right. Ground-floor articulated by console-bracketed pilasters. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper 6/6 and 3/3 sashes; full-length sashes to 1st floor, windows decrease in height as they go up. Coping stone to plain parapet. History: Joseph Grimaldi, the most famous London clown, lived here from 1818 until 1828, the year of his retirement. From 1800 he had dominated the stage of nearby Sadler's Wells as the figure of Clown in the English harlequinade. His special historic importance is due to the fact that many of his innovations became distinctive characteristics of the pantomime clown. (The Cambridge Encyclopedia: Cambridge: 1990-: 526).
Listing NGR: TQ3131882494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368886
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Cambridge Encyclopedia, (1990), 526
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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